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Monday, March 30, 2009

My kids went back to school today! You'd think that things would've settled down here, huh? Notsomuch.

Here's my son Clayton. He's 5. I know, I know, he looks much older, no? Austin drew a beard and mustache on him with black Sharpie. You know, because Austin's 14. And he doesn't know any better. Because he's only 14. Ahem.

I made Austin scrub it off with baby oil and it worked fairly well. Clay only had a 5:00 shadow when he went to school this afternoon.

This is Brooklyn eating her breakfast. Clay made her breakfast. Wasn't that sweet of him? Cheerios and whipped cream. No, I don't worry about her growth being stunted. Why do you ask?

This is Clay's air force. He folds a dozen or so airplanes a day. I find them everywhere. For the price of a pack of cheap paper, he's had weeks of entertainment. I think he's planning an attack on Florida right now. (It's the only geographic area he's heard of.)

Brooklyn tried to fly today. I think Clay may have given her a little push. She did manage to get airborne for a few seconds. Unfortunately she landed face-first into the couch and got herself a black eye.

43 comments:

The 'stache is surprisingly a nice look on Clay. Brooklyn seems to really be enjoying her breakfast. I'm not so sure it is the route I'd go but I suppose you shouldn't knock it til you try it, right? I mean, isn't whipped cream diary or close enough to milk to pass? Her little shiner is so cute! She could make up a rockin' story about how she got it. When my daughter (10) knocked the entire bottom half of both front teeth out in February she didn't tell people she was bending over and hit her mouth on the sink. Nope, she went to school and said she got in a fight....and won....and you really should have seen the other person! lol Life would be SO boring without kids.

About the paper airplanes. Two years ago during Thanksgiving break I made a paper airplane for my then-three-year old. His daddy tried to make one as well and well, let's just say mine was far superior;) During Christmas shopping my DH just "happened" to find a calendar - a paper airplane a day! So, that's a little over 300 paper airplanes! And we had to keep them all (3-year-old mentality, you know). Needless to say, he got much better at making planes. And he bought ANOTHER calendar (All! New! Designs!) this year...

I've got a couple photos of one of my kids covered with drawings from markers (not permanent ones, happily). I can't remember now if the child drew on herself or the elder sibling helped (probably both). Child is grinning wildly in the photo, though, pretty pleased with herself.

Poor Brooklyn with her little shiner. Just makes me go, "Awwwwwwww," and want to give her a hug. She really is putting on the pout for the photos, too (she does have a fine sense of the dramatic, though, doesn't she?).

Dawn, come on , there is absoultely nothing wrong with cheerios and whip cream, lol.As for the stache, Clay looks semi happy he has it and as for shiner, the poor little girl. She is adorable no matter what though.

Hah, that drawn on stash looks better than my husband's. He can't really grow out a proper one no matter how hard he tries.

My son has been making a bunch of paper airplanes too. I found one of them in my purse when I went to pay for the groceries. The cashier just raised her eyebrow at me as I calmly set the airplane on the counter so that I could grab my wallet.

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LOL Clay looks so Bond....James, Bond. I don't know why but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw his 'stache picture! I love that you made Austin clean it off, maybe now he'll go for the washable markers next time he's got that creative urge!

Poor Brooklyn. When my Sadie(7) was four, she fell on a friend's trampoline and landed face-first on a spring. She had a black eye right off, but the next day woke up with it completely swollen shut. I'll never forget her matter-of-fact voice telling me, "I only have one eye today".

My 6yo son got tubes about a month ago. When the nurse went to take him back, I brushed his hair behind his ears and notices that they were BLUE inside! They had been using blue ink stamp pads at school and he stuck his blue fingers in his ears. The ENT said they had a good laugh in the OR :)

Here I was expecting the "yeah! Spring break is over. The kids are back in school" post. But little ones get into just as much trouble alone if not more when there's not a big one around. Well Dawn, thanks for keeping us all entertained. One of my favorite pictures of my 6 year old was his first black eye when he was 2. He was so proud and showing it off. Ah, memories.

I really like the mustache and goatee that Austin drew on his brother. Too bad he used the Sharpie! I'm sure he meant to grab the Waterproof Crayolas.

My favorite story about permanent markers is this: My sister took me to meet a friend. Minutes before we got the friend found her son coloring his private parts and his belly button with a green permanent marker. It was during the school year. He was 4 or 5 and had to go to school the next day. Needless to say it wouldn't come off. All we saw was the pretty green art around his belly button. I can only imagine what his private parts looked like!!

Dawn, if it wasn't a sharpie, I would say use babywipes they work great on skin and regular marker. My daughter use to color her legs on a regular basis with marker. I got sharpie off plasic with antibactierial handcleaner, so you might try that umm next time! I think I would try Brooklyn's breakfast, almost anything is better with whip cream! Hope her eye is better soon.

I have to say... for all the artistic talent that Austin exhibits, that wasn't the best mustache I've ever seen ;)

But the Cheerios and whipped cream? I think that was pretty smart for him to do -- cereal and dairy, whipped cream is less messy than trying to pour milk. It's all good :) And Brooklyn looks like she's enjoying her meal.

Your Brooklyn is so much like my daughter, but mine is a bit younger. Please send your little beauty my kindest regards and I wish her eye become okay as soon as possible.P.S. I like your blog very much, voted for you at Blogger's Choice, hope you'll win!